Science: Computing power for Research

Scientific disciplines such as genomics, climate research or AI-assisted analyses generate ever larger datasets that demand enormous computing power. Local hardware solutions are often expensive, maintenance-heavy and quickly outdated. Cloud GPUs offer maximum performance, scalability and always up-to-date technology to run demanding computations efficiently.

A cloud GPU is a virtualised graphics processing unit provided via the cloud, enabling demanding computations without operating physical hardware. Scalable GPU resources process compute-intensive workloads such as deep learning, 3D rendering, scientific simulations and big data analyses efficiently – with maximum flexibility and without high investment costs. At centron the GPUs are dedicated, not shared.

Using cloud GPUs eliminates high acquisition costs, reduces maintenance effort and ensures constant access to modern hardware: maximum computing capacity without your own infrastructure, regular updates to the latest GPU technology, and flexible scalability to increase or reduce performance as needed.

Yes. Alongside cloud GPUs there are ccloud³ Virtual Machines with fast provisioning and dynamic scaling, as well as Managed Servers fully looked after by centron – leaving internal IT free for the research itself.

Excellent: Resources are billed by the hour for each project, quotas strictly limit budgets, and cReports provides the expenditure reports detailing how funds have been used – without any long-term commitment extending beyond the project duration.

The starting prices are deliberately low: Cloud GPU from €92.59 per month, Kubernetes from €29.99 per month and S3 Object Storage from €5.00 per month – with no hidden costs, you pay only for the capacity you use. New accounts receive €200 in starting credit for 60 days; you can calculate your specific configuration transparently in the price calculator.

Yes. In research, data relating to participants and studies often falls within the special categories set out in Article 9 of the GDPR; in addition, there are requirements from the ethics committee and funding bodies regarding the location of data storage. With centron, this data remains in Germany, under a data processing agreement in accordance with Article 28 of the GDPR. The data centres are certified to ISO 27001 on the basis of IT-Grundschutz; for ccloud³ / Managed Cloud there is an unrestricted BSI C5:2020 Type 1 attestation. Details can be found in the Trust Centre.